The Week.

Mary Flower , off the harbour of Boulogne , proves to have been ji catastrophe of a peculiar shocking character . It appears that her master made the mistake of putting out to sea again instead of running into the harbour . The result was that the force of the gale hurled her upon tho siuds , and although gallant efforts were made by Captain Wilsjn of tho Cologne , and several

volunteers , to save the crew , the poor fellows , with one exeeption , perished . -At the Woolwich Police-court , on the 24 th inst ., a charge of fraud was preferred against Lieutenant Francis AV . Bennett , R . N ., formerly in command of H . M . steamship Bloodhound , but now a prisoner for debt in Whiteoross-street . It was alleged that the prisoner had paid an

account which he owed to a local tradesman with a cheque on Messrs . Woodhead and Co ., the navy agents , they not having had auy assets of his since the yeai- 1 R 57 . The prisoner was remanded for a weak . At Windsor , Richard Albert AVatkin Bayly , late ensign of the Sot ' i Regiment , was re-examined on the charge of fraud . The family solicitor of his father ,

Major-General Bayly , appeared to watch the charge . The prosecutor did not wish to press the ease ; but tho prisoner was remanded , and tho court refused to accept bail . "A man following his own coffin to the grave , " is certainly a sensational heading ; but if this narrative be true , that and much more of an equally astonishing character has recently

occurred in London . It appears that a Frenchman , ivbose life was insured for the sum of one hundred thousand francs , wished to realise the amount ; and therefore assuming a false name , ho came to London , concocted a medical certificate of his death , ordered a coffin , and after causing a solemn funeral service to be celebrated in a Roman Catholic chapol , followed it to tho grave in the cemetery at Leytonstone . Suspicion was afterwards excited , and measures having been taken to exhume the body ,

the coffin proved to be empty . In the meanwhile the Frenchman vanished to America , but returning to Antwerp he was arrested by the Belgian authorities and handed over to his own Government . He now awaits his trial on the twofold charge of fraudulent bankruptcy and of attempting to defraud the Paris Insurance Company . Certainly if . this story be true it beats the inventive genius e \ en of Miss Braddou . The

registrations in Mavylebone were begun and ended on the 25 th inst . There were but few claims and no objections . —¦—Another meeting to further the objects of the Industrial Partnership of Clothiers ' Company Avas held on the 25 th inst ., in the Edgeware-road , and was presided over by Mr . Merry , C . E . Judging from the forcible manner in which the advantages of the co-operative

principle were set forth and the support it has already received from the working men , there can be little doubt of the successful establishment of the undertaking . A very interesting and suggestive demonstration has taken place at the Agricultural Hall , Islington . Visitors to the Metropolis and Provincial Exhibition could not have failed to notice the admirably gofc-up

life-boat which has been on view there for some weeks past , and the cost of which , as a bill on the side of the boat may have informed them , has been defrayed by the small , but numerous contributions of the Sunday school-children of the metropolis . A monster gathering at the hall witnessed the formal pres entation of this highly-creditable gift to , perhaps , the most

useful and important organization in existence—the National Lifeboat Institution . Mr . Alderman Lusk , M . P ., presided , and did the honours of tho presentation . A shocking story comes to us from the Marylebone police-court . Mr . Tubbs , the assistant overseer of Marylebone , stated that , acting upon information he had received , he went to a house in Doiehestcrplace , where he found in a back attic a lunatic woman , blind

and deformed and in tho most deplorable state . She weighed no more than a child nine or ten years of ago . The food Avith which she was supplied was of an odious description ; she was almost destitute of clothing , and her arms and other parts of her body were excoriated . The magistrate made an order for her examination by a medical man . It is said that Mr . Gladstone will be shortly invited to a banquet

at Belfast , as a tribute to his successful financial policy . Should ho accept this invitation , another golden opportunity of uniting English and Irish liberals will present itself . The well known Jacob Omnium has written a trenchant reply to Sir Samuel Baker's diatribe on the negro . At a Birmingham meeting , Dr . Under / hill mentioned the important fact that two

months before tho riots at Moraut Bay Mr . Gordon had written to him to say—not that there would be a rising of the peoplebut that if a redress of grievances was withheld they must all emigrate to tho United Sta ' es . Dr . Underbill justly argues that the idea of an appeal to force was not likely to exist in the mind of a man who contemplated the self-expatriation as

the alternative of a failure to obtain necessary reforms . The question of water supply is naturally engaging the attention of the inhabitants of tho eastern districts of the metropolis , who have suffered so severely from cholera . A meeting , which was at once influentially and numerously attended was held in the Town Hal ) , Befchnal Green , on the 20 th inst . Allegations

affecting one of the water companies Avere made by some of the speakers , and they were of so extraordinary a charteter that an immediate explanation is imperatively called for . The meeting resulted in the formation of an association , having for its object to secure a pure as well as plentiful supply of water . FoxBlGzr IsTEZtiasscs . —A rumour prevails to the effect

that notes from the French and Russian Governments have been delivered in Berlin and Copenhagen in reference to the Northern Schleswig question . The memorandum Avhich . the Greek Government has addressed to the protecting powers is now published . It reviews the history of Candia during the present century , contending that for thirty-six years the Cretans have lived a life of torture . It expresses its

apprehensions that , unless the Great Powers intervene , the suppression of the present insurrection Avill be marked by those cruelties with which the Turks have unhappily rendered us but too familiar . The Greeks appear content to state the facts , and to leave the protecting Governments to draw their own conclusions . The idea of annexation to the mother country ,

which must be in the mind of every Greek , is never once broached . The British Legation at Athens has denied the correctness of the statement that England had advised Turkey to cede Candia to Greece . The disturbances at Sicily are serious . Numerous bands from the mountains have taken up entrenched positions in various parts of the city of Palermo ,

and could not bo driven out . The Government has acted with great energy . Fourteen battalions of troops have been despatched to Palermo , and the Bourbon emissaries will again learn that they make war cither too soon or too late . While the war Avas going on , a diversion in Sicily might have been useful , if not to the Bourbons , at least to Austria . The triumphal

entry of the troops into Berlin took place on the 20 th inst The greatest enthusiasm is said to have prevailed . The King was presented with laurel wreaths and a congratulatory address ; and he , in his turn , made a speech , in which he gave all the honour to the army , and distributed orders and promotions , and elevated Count Bismarck to the rank of general . It appears that as no remittance has been made to the President